The European Union has finally admitted defeat in its long-running and "pointless" campaign to outlaw British pints, miles and ounces.
The decision to abandon plans to replace traditional imperial weights and measures with metric units was announced by Gunter Verheugen, Europe’s Industry Commissioner, who conceded: “This is a pointless battle. . . there was absolutely no point at all in trying to get rid of the particular heritage of one member state.”
After a wide-ranging consultation, European commissioners agreed unanimously that beer, roads and apples could be measured in the UK by whatever unit local people choose to use.
The imperial cause had become a rallying point for Eurosceptics, especially on the Right, and cynics suggested that the EU concession was designed to soften opposition to the planned European Constitution.
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Say what you want, but when I was in the UK...I loved going out to the local pub for a 0.568261485 liter.
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